President Trump took to Twitter this morning to rail against former CIA Director John Brennan and former associate deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, inspired of course by his morning dose of FOX & Friends. He aimed his latest attack at the former intelligence officials who he is dragging into his interminable, albeit fruitless, efforts to discredit the Special Counsel and the members of the intelligence community who will be called forward to testify against him.

He began by demanding that his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, immediately fire Bruce Ohr from the Justice Department as punishment for his connections to Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who compiled the now-infamous Steele Dossier, which alleges an elaborate quid pro quo between the Trump campaign and agents of the Russian Federation as well as allegations that the Russians are blackmailing Trump with videos of him engaging in lewd acts while on a 2013 trip to Moscow.

Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and discredited Dossier, ever be fired from the Jeff Sessions “Justice” Department? A total joke!

He was removed from his position in late 2017 after his connections to Steele were discovered; the Washington Post remarks that it’s still “unclear” what Ohr does at the Justice Department these days.

It remains to be seen whether or not Attorney General Sessions is preparing to give the President his pound of flesh, though there is little evidence that Ohr or his wife assisted Steele in his work as Trump and his hooting allies say that he did.

Prior to that, the President took a swipe at former CIA director John Brennan and inadvertently exposed a major problem within our intelligence community — though not in the way that he thinks he did.

This weekend, Brennan announced in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that he’s considering suing the Trump administration over the spiteful revocation of his security clearance as a way to punish him for his vocal criticisms of the President and his administration — which inspired this outburst from the President, who dared him to bring it on:

I hope John Brennan, the worst CIA Director in our country’s history, brings a lawsuit. It will then be very easy to get all of his records, texts, emails and documents to show not only the poor job he did, but how he was involved with the Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt. He won’t sue!

Everybody wants to keep their Security Clearance, it’s worth great prestige and big dollars, even board seats, and that is why certain people are coming forward to protect Brennan. It certainly isn’t because of the good job he did! He is a political “hack.”

While this certainly isn’t the case in this particular instance, the President did reference a common practice in Washington that should make all of us concerned: the way that former intelligence officials turn their security clearances into very lucrative “consulting” and lobbying opportunities for weapons manufacturers and private security contractors, ensuring there’s always a crowd of Very Respected members of the intelligence community pushing for eternal war and the endless squandering of our tax dollars on the bloated abomination of our national security state for a nice paycheck.

The president is growing increasingly desperate, and these shameless attacks are all the proof we need to know that the walls are closing in on him. But the silver lining of this entire mess is how effortlessly he exposes the corruption and the rot endemic in our political system, and it is imperative that we address it with just as much vigor as we address the excesses and authoritarian impulses of President Trump.